Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050119743

Is that we should not. lower our standards just to accominodate theme spelific counires. They can Improve their recurds thenmselvem. Then they can be admitted to the Visa Waiver Program. In the case of Porhugal. we have a country that already has 26.010 people in this country illegally. and that is with the visa screening process because they are not part of the Visa Waiver Program. If they become part of the Visit Waiver Prug am. how many more times that 26.000 illegal folks are we going to have In this country from PoerI upal? The point is. we do not know. but It could be in the hundreds. and that is why. clearly. If we have a Visa Waiver Program Il Portugal. we are going to contribute significantly. in fact. to the Illegal population In America. Undeniably. if Portugal becomes a visa waiver country. there will be more Illegal aliens from hat country than any other visa waiver country. Il the case of Greece. tgain I repea.t. the point I made a while ago. that the record for Greece Is worsening. The number of Individuals who were denied their visas In fiscal year 1911 is greater than the numiber denied In fiscal year 1996. Their ecord Is going exactly the wrong direction. Why we want to reward that country when their record is worsening.
Keywords matched
Visa Illegal aliens visa visas

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Greeks
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
LAMAR SMITH
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1998-03-24
Speech ID
1050119743
Paragraph
#0
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